A Farm Girl: Three Acres of Fertile Land Can Be Exchanged for a Country

Amidst the excruciating pain, Qi Yunqiong felt she heard a baby crying, but she was too weak to look. With her eyes closed, she reached out and pulled the soft body into her arms, wrapped it in her clothes, and fell asleep just like that.

The sunlight fell on the snow, becoming even more dazzling after being refracted, making everything white.

"Ah Yun, come quick! There's someone here!"

The woman's scream reached Qi Yunqiong's ears. She tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids were heavy with stones, and her whole body ached terribly, leaving her with no strength.

"Is anyone there?" A familiar male voice reached her ears, making her want to cry.

After a series of footsteps, someone squatted down beside her, touched her forehead, and checked her breathing.

Her hands were very delicate and soft; she was a woman.

"She's not dead yet, her lips are all blue from the cold, she must have been lying here all night..." The woman saw the bulging in her arms, lifted her clothes to look inside, and was shocked, gasping for breath, "She has a child in her arms! A newborn!"

"Let me see."

The man's voice came from afar and then stopped beside her.

"Yun... is Yun Qiong..."

His voice was filled with extreme shock and astonishment. When he looked at the child in her arms, who was frozen bluish-purple and breathing weakly, he was even more shocked and could not believe his eyes.

"You know her?" the woman asked curiously, muttering, "She looks kind of familiar, like I've seen her somewhere before... I remember now! She's that pregnant woman!"

Qi Yunqiong...it really is Qi Yunqiong!

Shi Xin's body was stiff as a statue, and his brain worked sluggishly for a long time before he could sort things out.

Qi Yunqiong was pregnant with his child and traveled a long way back to find him, but she mistakenly believed her sister's joke and was so sad that she wanted to go back. In the end, she gave birth to her child in the snow.

This is his child...

Shi Xin stared at the life in disbelief, then covered her face and burst into tears.

His sister was the first to react and pinched him.

"This is your sister-in-law, isn't it? Don't just stand there like an idiot, quickly bring the carriage over and take her to see a doctor!"

Shi Xin had never panicked in his life, but now he was completely at a loss. He did whatever his sister said, like a puppet being directed by her.

They took Qi Yunqiong and the child back to town and urgently sought out a doctor.

The doctor was chilled after childbirth and was weak, so she needed the best tonics to recuperate.

Shi Xin used all the money he earned from his business to buy supplements and stayed by her side around the clock.

Under their meticulous care, Qi Yunqiong woke up. The two looked at each other, and the rescued child lay peacefully asleep between them. Neither of them spoke, but they held each other and wept bitterly.

Shi Xin's sister stood by the bed and slapped herself hard several times in front of Qi Yunqiong.

"Sister-in-law, it's all my fault for talking nonsense, otherwise you wouldn't have had to suffer like this..."

Qi Yunqiong shook her head, tears wetting her pillowcase.

Not long after, her sister had to return to her husband's home. Before leaving, she repeatedly told Shi Xin to treat this daughter-in-law well, otherwise she would not let him off the hook even if he was far away.

Shi Xin felt deeply guilty towards Qi Yunqiong. Once she recovered, he took her and the child up the mountain and once again asked Xu Yun to allow him to return to secular life.

After learning of the hardships the two had endured, Xu Yun realized that their love was stronger than gold.

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Jian, without further obstruction, questioned the two about their next plans.

Shi Xin asked Qi Yunqiong if she wanted to return to Jinzhou. Qi Yunqiong said that her parents had died long ago, and she only had some distant relatives in Jinzhou. Her family property had also been divided up by her relatives because there was no eldest son in the family. If she went back, she would probably have to start from scratch again. As for Shi Xin, he had been doing quite well before, so it would be better to follow his plan and go north.

But the child was born not long ago, and a long journey would be inconvenient, so she would probably have to stay here and wait for him to come back.

Having just experienced such a painful moment, Shi Xin couldn't bear to leave her alone.

In this difficult situation, Xu Yun unexpectedly stepped forward and said that he was willing to take care of the child for a period of time, and would take the child away after their lives stabilized.

In Shixin's heart, his master was always a person who transcended worldly desires and was detached from worldly concerns; to put it simply, he was excessively indifferent.

Just to be on the safe side, he quietly revealed that he didn't want his son to repeat his old path of becoming a monk at such a young age. He wanted his son to at least have some worldly experience before deciding whether or not to become a monk himself.

Xu Yun rolled his eyes at him, saying that he wasn't so lonely as to trick someone else's son into becoming his disciple. He was just trying to make them suffer less because of their past relationship as master and disciple.

Shi Xin then realized that he had been judging others by his own standards. He pulled Qi Yunqiong to thank Xu Yun, left the child, whose life had not yet been taken, at Hanshan Temple, and took Qi Yunqiong to the north.

Life should have continued in this prosperous way, but one day on the way, Qi Yunqiong suffered a sudden relapse of an old ailment caused by giving birth in the snow, and the illness struck so hard that she could not continue her journey.

Shi Xin also had a batch of expensive medicinal herbs with her. If they were not delivered to the designated location for processing within two months, they would spoil.

On one side is money, and on the other is Qi Yunqiong.

Qi Yunqiong is naturally more important.

Without hesitation, he stopped, found a town to settle down in, and rented a house to take care of her.

He spent all the money he had just earned trying to treat her illness, but there was no improvement.

Qi Yunqiong grew weaker day by day, becoming so thin that she was just skin and bones. She lay in his arms, barely alive, unable to even drink a sip of porridge.

Shi Xin used hot water to wipe her face, trying to warm her icy body. Qi Yunqiong gently grasped his hand and shook her head at him.

"We are probably destined to be apart... You were born to be a Buddhist, but I disturbed your mind, and that is why I am being punished like this..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Shi Xin interrupted her, fighting back tears. "There's no such thing as preordained marriage. We are husband and wife, and no one can separate us!"

"Shixin, please read that poem to me..."

When the two first met in the deep mountains and forests, Shi Xin recited poetry as he descended the mountain. His spirited and carefree demeanor instantly captivated her, even though she was on the run for her life. That poem was imprinted in her heart from that moment on, and she could never forget it.

Shi Xin nodded with tears in her eyes, took a few breaths, and exhaled with trembling hands.

"To attain enlightenment, do not speak of destiny; to cultivate the mind, do not seek true scriptures. Sorrow and joy, withering and flourishing—which was predetermined in a past life? The cassock itself is not pure; the mortal world does not taint the emptiness of nature. The ancient temple's thousand-year-old bell—all are the dreams of fools..."

As he chanted in a low, somber voice, Qi Yunqiong closed her eyes forever.

Shi Xin sat guarding her body for three days. After that, the body started to decompose, and the neighbors came over to complain. Only then did he have to find a place to bury her.

But how lonely she must be, buried here all alone in this foreign land.

He couldn't bear to leave her alone anymore.

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